With the climatic barrier and water nourishment of qinling, there will be eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, and only then will China's Zhou Dynasty, Qin, Han, Tang and other dynasties be born, so Qinling is also known as "the dragon vein of Chinese civilization".
On April 16, 2018, the relevant local authorities issued an announcement prohibiting the "Aotai crossing". At this point, the folk Aotai crossing was forcibly ended. Many netizens speculate that this is because "Ao Tai Crossing" is walking on the "Chinese Dragon's Backbone", which will destroy the dragon vein and affect the fortune...
The Aotai Line is the name of the donkey friends, that is, a main vein line between the two main peaks of the Qinling Mountains, Taibai Mountain, Baxiantai and Aoshan Mountain. The road to Taibai Mountain is a nine-curve eighteen-bend, crossing from Aoshan Mountain to Taibai Mountain with a straight distance of more than 40 kilometers, and the whole hiking distance is more than 140 kilometers, which is the most masochistic route in Qinling. Due to the year-round clouds and mist on the Aotai Line, the unique landscape of the four seasons in one day and the remains of quaternary glaciers still attract donkey friends.
The famous Nine-Fold Stone Sea
Aoshan mountain is located in Taibai County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, belongs to the middle section of the Qinling Mountains, the highest peak of MaizhuLing is 3520 meters above sea level, is the second highest peak in Shaanxi, Aoshan is also the most primitive area in the Qinling Mountains. The variety of animals and plants is very rich, the ruins of the stone sea are all over the slopes, and there are endless acres of large meadows, a magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers.
Affected by the cold weathering of the alpine zone and climatic changes, terrain and other factors, the Aotai region has a rare stone sea landscape on the earth, here is the world of stone, the land of stone, mountains and mountains, mountains and mountains, all stones, under the sun, boundless, overwhelming thousands of miles, only by personally experiencing you will know, how magnificent this is.
Another striking sight on the Aotai Route is the Great Uncle Sea, known as the Immortal Lake. Located in the main peak of Taibai Mountain, at an altitude of 3590 meters above sea level, The Great Sea is the highest alpine lake in eastern China, developing in the Quaternary glacial period 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, and is a typical glacial lake. The oval shape, which looks like an eye from a distance, looks like an eye above the top of the mountain and looks at the sky. Surrounded by stone mountains or barren moss, the water of this lake is clear and clean, like a quiet flow of time.
Uncle Sea
Aotai's reputation is out, in addition to the beautiful scenery and difficult to conquer the road, but also because of the frequent mountain accidents in recent years, almost every year some people are killed on the way through Aotai. (According to unofficial statistics, a total of 46 people were injured, missing or killed during the Aotai crossing between 2012 and 2017.) ）
Compared with Everest, which has 8844.43 meters of snow all year round, the Aotai Line is not too high, and the highest altitude of Taibai Mountain is only 3767.2 meters, while the altitude of Aoshan Mountain is only 3476 meters, which is lower than that of Taibai Mountain. But because it is part of the Qinling Mountains, the dividing line between north and south, the weather changes caused by the intersection of north and south air here increase its danger factor, and the pressure difference often leads to strong winds.
The running horse beams in the Aotai area, as well as the East and West Ridges, are huge outlets. Especially when encountering rare wet weather, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the wind will inevitably be accompanied by fog, and the "wind and rain fog" will be emitted in unison, thus forming the biggest killer of the Taibai Mountains. When there is a strong wind, 2 people can not hear each other shouting even if it is only 1 meter apart; when it rains, as long as it lasts for half a day, it sweats itself plus the high humidity outside, what down sleeping bags, waterproof bags as long as they are opened are all invalid; when fogging, it is like having cataracts in front of you, nothing can be seen clearly, the terrain is completely shielded from GPS navigation, almost becoming blind, in this case, if the personnel are lost, the consequences can be imagined.
The reason why the Aotai Line is listed as a forbidden area has nothing to do with the dragon vein and has nothing to do with fortune, only because the price of life is higher.